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Cancer Alley, Louisiana
Koeppel, Barbara | November 8, 1999 issue

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The article talks about a stretch along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and just south of New Orleans and locals call it Cancer Alley. The corridor is home to seven oil refineries and somewhere between 175 and 350 heavy industrial plants. People living nearest the factories and waste dumps are sick and dying. Clusters of asthma, stillbirths, miscarriages, neurological diseases and cancers have mushroomed. And residents have long claimed that the waste has poisoned domestic animals, wildlife and fish.

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FACTORY & trade waste -- Physiological effect; WASTE products; PETROLEUM refineries; LUNGS -- Diseases; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; LOUISIANA; UNITED States
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